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  1. January 6th, 2006, 12:20 AM #1
    bgknp
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    Reformatted/reinstalled windows, now I have no sound device.

    Howdy guys, I have a nice alienware computer. Unfortunately I overloaded it with utter crap and their support has been nonexistent, so to try and get some sound out of my speakers I come to you.
    I reformatted/reinstalled windows, and I had 0 drivers. I reinstalled graphics and such, but it says I have no audio device. The thing is, I have onboard sound (7.1) and I have no idea how to reenable it.

    Here's my specs:Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) alienware alienware alienware
    System Serial Number: 335482
    Asset Tag: 123456789000
    Chassis Serial Number: 335482
    Enclosure Type: Desktop
    Processor a Main Circuit Board b
    2.20 gigahertz AMD Pentium 4
    128 kilobyte primary memory cache
    1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A8N-SLI DELUXE 1.XX
    Serial Number: 123456789000
    Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
    BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1011 06/02/2005
    Drives Memory Modules c,d
    250.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
    245.24 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
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  2. January 6th, 2006, 01:40 AM #2
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    drivers are on THIS page.
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  3. January 6th, 2006, 11:33 AM #3
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    I'll try this out now. I'm downloading the first set of drivers on http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us, since they appear to be the only kind of drivers available for WinXP 32 bit. Hope it doesn't kill my computer.
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  4. January 6th, 2006, 11:58 AM #4
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    Well, I downloaded and installed those drivers, and it didn't work. I still have no audio device loaded onto my computer . What should I do?
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  5. January 6th, 2006, 01:16 PM #5
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    is this the driver you tried?
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  6. January 6th, 2006, 03:18 PM #6
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    No, trying that now. Will update.
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  7. January 6th, 2006, 03:44 PM #7
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    I clicked on the setup.exe in the folder after downloading it, and it said the drivers were installed on my computer. It prompts a restart, so I rebooted. I still have no audio device! What should I do?
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  8. February 5th, 2006, 01:17 PM #8
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    Hi bgknp,

    I had a similar problem installing my SB Live24. I solved it by activating the Windows Audio service (may be I disabled that to increase performance)...
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  9. February 5th, 2006, 06:00 PM #9
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    I had the same problem recently with a HP it woul dnot find the audio device and HP's realtek drivers were not working. To fix it i had to download the stock audio drivers the manufactuered HP's come out with think it was like a 40meg's of audiofiles. Well i ran it and sure enough one of them was teh right one so you might try alienware and see if they have anything related to that. Also make sure on board audio is enabled in your BIOS
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